p2pnet.net News:- Napster’s bid to finally land a place in the insignificant corporate online music business by renting out mp3s is still garnering headlines.

One such is the Miami Herald’s Subscription services challenge dominance of Apple’s iPod. Another is Napster takes fight up to Apple from Australia’s The Age.

Never happen.

As Ashlee Vance wrote recently, Napster II’s latest effort will end up as a fully-integrated flop.

And none of the plastic music sites trying to sell, or rent, the grotesquely over-priced tracks dolled out by the music label cartel will ever present a serious challenge to iTunes.

It’s the only game in town.

Nor will the sites – Apple’s included - ever make any real money.

That all goes to the cartel members, EMI, UMG, Warner and Sony BMG who rip the corporate sites off just as they rip off music lovers.

The only real online music scene is on the p2p networks and remains wholly untapped by Big Music.

Cherry Lane Digital ceo Jim Griffin sums it up like this: “… the sound recording companies cling to their pursuit of this notion of control, calling those who do not comply thieves. And in doing so they leave billions on the table that should be divided fairly amongst creators and rights holders.”

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See:-
fully-integrated flop - ‘Mobile’ Napster challenges Apple, p2pnet, February 4, 2005
wholly untapped - Evelyn and the RIAA, p2pnet, February 6, 2005

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